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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Revision of the DSM

The journal Personality and Mental Health features a special issue entitled “The Revision of DSM – Intended and Unintended Consequences: Multidisciplinary Perspectives“. Sociological, epistemological, legal, and ethical aspects of the DSM-5 are among the themes discussed. In looking ahead, the papers invariably look to the past at earlier developments in psychiatric nosology. Andrea Fossati, for instance, discusses the history of personality disorders in Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries: